It was noted that the Hollywood Star type is good for sun bursts look in sunsets or between trees. You do not have to start out with a preset, just select a type of star you like and use the Add brush to place them – note it must be a bright spot for it to stick.Also, if the area you are adding stars is not real bright, it will only set a small star, but if area is really bright, then you will get a larger brighter star. Even if the Threshold is set to 1, any stars you have set will appear. You can remove all the spots in a bright area and then use the Add brush to place the star exactly where you want it – this is particularly handy with a sunset or sunrise image where you want to enhance the sun effect or on candle flames.You can also save image with the just the stars showing on a black background as shown in the Stars Only mode. Sometimes you have to click the Remove brush several times as the stars get stacked easily if the spot is a really hot spot in your image. I find it very handy to delete the obvious misplaced effects from here with the Remove brush. To find out where some of the stars effects are hiding in your image, go to the Star Settings and select Stars Only.Topaz says you will probably have to set Threshold and Size with every preset. Rarely is a preset set up exactly as you need for your image. Be sure to create presets (identify them as yours with your initials or some other way) so that you can repeat the effect again once you find one you like.Also try adjusting the Size and Spread to get the final effect. Be sure to set your Saturation (Saturation set to 0 is white light but as you move it right, it picks up the color from that part of the image so it could be magenta instead of yellow) and Temperature (move to left is cooler colors and right warmer colors) in the Color Adjustments to get a stronger effect. For a smooth glow to use on water, set Threshold to 0 and Luminance to 0 and paint in a star then set Glow fairly strong in the Additional Effects section.(Threshold near 1 is just one point of light, a setting of 0 is the maximum points of light your can have in that image.) Spread is how thick your star gets – works with Luminance.) In Main Adjustments settings, must have a setting below 1 in the Threshold slider, above 0 on the Luminance slider, and in Additional Effects section a 0 Glow or you will see no changes.They say the effect is layer dependent so this works. The work-around is to segment you image in Photoshop and select different parts to apply the effect to individually. This is important if you have a sky image with a lot of points of light but only a few are being picked up by the program. Anything above that amount over this will not be enhanced. The program places up to 300 stars in the brightest parts of an image.This is important to know or else nothing makes sense in this plug-in. However you can remove stars using the Remove brush where the program placed them in areas you do not want them to appear. Most important thing to understand is that you cannot add stars using the Add brush where you want on an image – if there is not enough light to support the spot where you want the light to appear, it will not let you paint one in that place.Finally Star Effects was applied back in Photoshop where a Traditional Star was applied using one of their presets. Next it was taken into Dynamic Auto-Painter program and an Aquarell effect was run. This image was first taken into Topaz Simplify and a Paint Colorful preset applied with some adjustments. Topaz suggests this plug-in looks really nice applied to water, candles, city lights at night, dewdrops on flowers, jewelry, Christmas lights, and sunsets to mention a few ideas. (See my Tidbits Blog‘s sidebar for website link.) I beta tested this plug-in before its release so here so are a few tips I learned from using the filter and Topaz’s great Webinars. The plug-in is a little different than any other ones they offer since it is sold separately from the bundle and it does a very specific effect. The above was actually the first image I tried using the new Star Effect plug-in from Topaz – I thought is makes the tree look like it is flowering.
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